Penfolds Bin 138 Barossa Valley Grenache Shiraz Mataro 2023
- 93
- $60
- Drink by: 2025-2032
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As usual, Bin 138 brings a wealth of flavour to the glass. It definitely has presence, weight and persistence delivered via sturdy ripe tannins and boasting aromas of dusty toasty scents mixed with black plum, red and blue berries, baking spices, dried flowers and earth. A density of ripe fruit defines the palate together with a noted tannin presence from well-integrated seasoned French and American oak. There is an unspoken undercurrent of Barossa fruit power but that lovely aromatic spiciness lifts and elevates.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
